shopkeeper

Example Sentences

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Just across the street at the Ali Bin Ali grocery store, a shopkeeper was more apprehensive as he arranged boxes of Iranian dates and nuts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Majid, a mobile shopkeeper in his thirties, said this time felt different.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

He says he feels lucky to have a big family but knows for some customers a conversation with a shopkeeper might be the only one they have some days.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

“It was Ahmed the bystander who helped disarm one of the shooters,” said Latiph, referring to Ahmed el Ahmed, a shopkeeper who threw himself at one of the suspects on Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

There may have been a hierarchy of importance among the speakers, but everyone was heard, chief and subject, warrior and medicine man, shopkeeper and farmer, landowner and laborer.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela